Characters; Fisherman Danny Gomez

Fisherman Danny Gomez is passionate about helping his clients catch and bring home fish!!

I first met Danny Gomez and his beautiful wife at a dinner party at our house when mutual clients were staying at our Inn and fishing with Danny on his fishing vessel, Dhamar. Since then those same guests have come back and hired Danny again. They also won a tournament with him in San Blas a couple of years ago, the prize was a car!!

Danny answered question for me of what brought him to La Cruz:

I moved to La Cruz in 1991 from Baja, California Sur, Mexico. My sister moved here first with her family and then I followed. The area is magical and I fell in love with it. Special thanks to my sister and brother-in law Raquel and Jorge (of Tacos on the Street) that brought me to live with them when I was in my teens.

I met my beautiful wife, Gina, in the plaza. This October we’ll celebrate our 21^st wedding anniversary. We have two grown children who are twenty and eighteen years old.

I’ve called this area my home now for more then 23 years.

The reason I moved here was the great fishing and because it’s a real relaxed type of town. Also, I worked a lot on sport fishing boats and I had the opportunity to open my own business here in 2003. I’m proud to be helping the local economy for the past 20 years.

Gina, runs the business and we build the boats and fish! We have 2 boats; mine, Dhamar, which means lady of the sea, we built in 2003. My father in-laws, the Gabriela, we built in 2007. They both have the same twenty-seven foot center console. They are called super pangas and have twin outboard motors. They are fiberglass boats, built with the help of a fiberglass man in La Cruz, named Ramses.

There are two 2 types of fishing trips that I charter:

• Inshore fishing is in close, ten to fifteen miles from shore. We target mostly fish of the reefs like snappers, amberjacks roosterfish, jack cravell’s, etc. On this type of fishing trip we can take up to four anglers (fishermen).
• The offshore trip is a full day with the target fish; dorado, sailfish, marlin, tuna and wahoo. On this type of fishing trip we can only take 2 anglers. This type of fishing is based on the temperature of the water. We bait the fish with death baits lures and live bait. This fishing is from June to December.
• Then we have long range fishing trips exclusive for giant yellow-fin tuna. From the Marietas islands we go out another fifty-three miles to one hundred-ten miles. Mostly we use a large journeyman sixty-five foot boat with full crew; two captains, crew and chef on board.

The client who charters the boat takes the fish home. We pack the fish in ziploc bags, frozen, and then put on ice. They can take up to 50 lbs of meat in an ice cooler on their flight.

My staff are one deckhand and a diver that cleans my boat and does the mechanics. I normally do all my own maintenance. I’m proud to give work to a crew of 4 locals, when the season is here.

And one of my best fishing achievements is catching a marlin that weighed 1037 pounds! That was on June 5^th, 2005.

I like my town and like the progress I see. What inspires me is my family and I try to help local people. I live so there never are hard feelings with others.

Our whole family is very good at cooking. Some family members have restaurants, Mariscos Potrero de Chavez serves Mexican seafood and my mother-in-law, Trini Chavez, has one of the best Mexican food restaurants. In high season she opens with pozole, gorditas tostadas, enchiladas, sopes and more. Go visit her and find out for yourself, its called Doña Trini’s and is located at Calle marlin #7.

For fishing charters guaranteed to please… Danny Gomez can be reached at 322 111 4802

Fun Fact… Danny’s sister Raquel and her family own Taco’s on the Street!